Community stories

Angels South America has launched the second edition of its six-month mentoring program in which distinguished stroke experts from Argentina, Chile and Colombia provide guidance to healthcare professionals whose work has the potential to improve quality of care for stroke patients. Meet the mentors and the mentees.

Driven by a competitive and curious nature, and the need to take care “of someone or something”, Dr Marco Longoni’s career to date is a masterclass in achieving and sustaining excellence.

If you want to know the sort of neurologist Dr Paweł Wrona is, just ask his patients. But if you want to understand how he became that way, you will find the answer in the theatre.

Dr Rositsa Krasteva is driving stroke care transformation in Russe and influencing the stroke agenda throughout Bulgaria. A nominee for the 2024 ESO Spirit of Excellence Award, her focus remains laser-sharp on the patient.

Stroke care transformation in North Macedonia is hindered by political instability and fuelled by frustration. But neurologist and change advocate Dr Maja Bozinovska holds fast to the dream of equal access to stroke care for all in a person-centred healthcare setting.

For stroke neurologist Prof. Zdravka Poljaković, public advocacy around stroke is not her duty but her reward. “If you have done something in your life, you have earned people’s respect and you can do something with it.”